Editing History of Hardcore Factions (section)

== Early period (2012–2013) ==
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HCF emerged from the Factions plugin ecosystem, distinguished from ordinary factions servers by two additions: a timed ban on death, and a map that ends and resets rather than running indefinitely. Together these turned a sandbox into a season-based competitive format.

* Origins of the deathban rule and the earliest servers to run it
* Development of [[SOTW]] and [[EOTW]] as scheduled events
* First recognisable [[Classes|class]] systems
* Early YouTube coverage and its effect on player numbers

<span style="color:#a00;">''Needs: names and dates of the first servers to run a full HCF ruleset, and who introduced the deathban.''</span>
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